Judge Robert Patterson Junior, hearing the copyright trial of JK Rowling versus Steven Vander Ark and the Harry Potter Lexicon announced during the trail that he tried reading Harry Potter and the Philosopher’s (Sorcerer’s) Stone to his children but only got half way through due to the book being "filled with strange names and words that would be gibberish in any other context."

He went on to state that JK Rowling’s work was more complex than Dickens and that there was genuine worth in an encyclopedia like the Harry Potter Lexicon.

JK Rowling believes that the publication of the Lexicon will open the floodgates and asked "Are we the owners of our own work?"

A verdict is not expected for another few weeks and the outspoken judge has urged the two sides to settle out of court and avoid "years of appeals and misery"

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